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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Shirley Jump: The Billionaire's Matchmaker

The Billionaire’s Matchmaker
is not your ordinary anthology.

Let’s face it; for some readers an anthology is simply a
collection of novellas. Unless the
collection features one of their favorite authors, they bypass the title in
favor of a longer read. After all, they
want a full story for their money.

This mindset was very much on our minds when the four of us
decided to write The Billionaire’s
Matchmaker. We knew immediately that
we wanted the stories in our anthology to link together, more like a continuing
series with reoccurring characters and a common thread. Originally, the idea of a matchmaking dog
started as a joke, but the more we talked about it, the more the dog lovers in
us knew we had the perfect idea.

Thus we created Charlie, the matchmaking Jack Russell
terrier who invades the town of Chandler Cove and brings romance to four best
friends. Charlie belongs to the Nicholas
Bonaparte, or Mr. B as he’s called, the mysterious billionaire who lives on the
outskirts of town, but through a series of events, ends up spending time with
each of the heroines. We liken it to a
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pooch.

In many ways The
Billionaire’s Matchmaker is more a novel in four parts than an anthology as
Charlie’s story stretches throughout.
You have to read from beginning to end to find out what happens to the
terrier as well as discover the story behind Mr. B.

Why didn’t we write a series instead of an anthology? Simple.
We thought this format fit Charlie better. The faster pace ensures that Charlie’s antics
don’t get tiresome. Plus, we wanted to
give readers a complete read. We didn’t
want to leave them hanging over four separate books to learn Charlie’s happy
ending.

So if you anthologies aren’t normally your thing, we hope
you’ll change your mind and try The Billionaire’s Matchmaker. Like we said, it’s not your ordinary
anthology. Oh, and if you like fun,
sexy, emotional stories with happy endings?
You might want to try the book too.

Happy Reading!

Tell us about your favorite pet
and be entered to win a copy of The
Billionaire’s Matchmaker!

Can a
feisty four-legged matchmaker help four best friends find the romance of their
dreams?The Billionaire’s Matchmaker by Shirley Jump, Susan Meier, Jackie Braun
and Barbara Wallace is available online through Entangled Publishing as well as
through Amazon,Barnes & Noble, Kobo and iTunes.

18 comments:

I am with out pets at the moment, which is rather unsettling actually.

One of my favorites was a donkey that lived in the paddock next door. It would hang out over our fence all day. We did encourage it with vegetable scraps. His name was Deefa - D for Donkey. Best name ever.

No pets since our goofy cat, Gerald, passed away some years ago. Favorite family pet would be DD1's first Great Dane. Dakota was with them when their first son was born and she seemed to think she was the baby's mother! She would "guard" him and be the first to the cribside when he cried. We even have a photo of Dakota grooming "her" baby!

We always had stuffed animals because my husband was allergic to dog/cat fur/dander. A few years ago, though, they came out with a nose spray that worked immediately for him, and he hasn't had a runny nose since then. We can't afford a big dog like we'd like, but we DO dogsit for lots of friends.We started with the dog in our avatar, a beautiful Golden Retriever, Austin. Dogsat him for a few years, a couple of months at a time while his owners were in China teaching. Next came a friend's Golden, Goldy, followed by another friend's terrier, Brandy. Alas, Austin (15) died, then Goldy died (11). Goldy was replaced by Ruby, another Golden, and we've dogsat her a few times in the last couple of years (now 2.5). Brandy died (17) and then the neighbour in our backyard moved in with a St. Bernard, Riley (now 2). We hop the fence and visit Riley almost daily and have watched her three times in the last six months.We do pretty well considering that we don't have to pay vet bills or gigantic amounts of dog food, but we ARE covered in dog fur (and now drool) quite a bit....

I had a little Toy Fox Terrier name Mitzi. She even let me put my large doll's clothes on her. She didn't like other children, she would bark at them and try to nip their heels. On her birthday we would take her to White Castle - of course she got excited since you could smell that place from blocks away - since she was so small we would only let her have one burger (pickle removed). She's been gone many, many years but I still think of her whenever the subject of dogs comes up

We have a cat and a dog. Our dog actually found us after our other dog died. He was crying outside our home. So we took him inside and fed him. We waited for anyone to claim him, but no one came, so we adopted him and everything is history. While our cat is our baby. He sleeps beside me! I have asthma, but that didn't stop me from taking care of him. :)